The Ballad of Shirley Collins - 19.30 screening SOLD OUT

The life of folk icon Shirley Collins explored. SOLD OUT

Director:Rob Curry & Tim Plester / Nick Abrahams

PLUS Q&A with directors AND SHIRLEY HERSELF (7.30pm screening only)

94 mins / 2017 / UK / ENGLISH

Shirley Collins stood at the epicentre of the folk music revival during the 1960s and 70s.

This documentary explores the story behind the icon, making fertile use of authentic 1959 audio-archive to recount Shirley’s seminal road-trip around America’s Deep South alongside her then-lover (and pre-eminent ethnomusicologist) Alan Lomax.

Featuring contributions from the comedian Stewart Lee and David Tibet of Current 93, this is a meditative and richly textured piece of portraiture about loss and redemption, suggesting that during these turbulent times, we might just need Shirley Collins now more than ever.

The directors' previous film is the award-winning documentary ’Way of the Morris‘.

Tickets: 11am £5, 7.30pm £8/10

The Doors BuildingA special two-seater pop-up cinema in situ, created by Bob and Claire Humm, will be showing short films - reflections, dreams, memories - for 45 mins before each event of the festival at the Electric Palace.